Philosophical inquiries into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering : maternal subjects /
edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt.
- xi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 32 .
- Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 32. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maternal Norms, Practices, and Insights : -- Sara Ruddick, Transracial Adoption, and the Goals of Maternal Practice / Where Did I Go? The Invisible Postpartum Mother / Into the Mouths of Babes: The Moral Responsibility to Breastfeed / Tales from the Tit: The Moral and Political Implications of Useless Lactational Suffering / Motherhood and the Workings of Disgust / Maternal Roles and Relations : -- The Practical and Theoretical Challenges of Mothering with Disabilities: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis / Mothers, Children with Disability, and Post-Modern Sainthood / Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter / Why Don't Philosophers Tell Their Mothers' Stories? Philosophy, Motherhood, and Imaginative Resistance / On Stepmothers as Hybrid Beings & World-Travelers: Towards a New Model for Care-ful Ethics / Maternal Phenomena, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics : -- Creating Life, Giving Birth, and Learning to Die / The Pregnant Body as a Public Body: An Occasion for Community Care, Instrumental Coercion, and a Singular Collectivity / Becoming Bovine: A Phenomenology of Early Motherhood, and its Practical, Political Consequences / The Aesthetics of Childbirth / The Sublimity of Gestating and Giving Birth: Toward a Feminist Conception of the Sublime / Jean Keller -- Jennifer Benson and Allison Wolf -- Christine Overall and Tabitha Bernard -- Lissa Skitolsky -- Sherri Irvin -- Maeve M. O'Donovan -- Christine A. James -- Alison Stone -- Joshua Shaw -- Beckey Sukovaty -- Brooke Schueneman -- Julie Piering -- Sally Fischer -- Peg Brand and Paula Granger -- Sheila Lintott. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Part III. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
"Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers. This volume brings together a diverse group of philosophers to speak about topics in this reemerging area of philosophical inquiry, taking up new themes, such as maternal aesthetics, and pursuing old ones in new ways, such as investigating stepmothering as it might inform and ground an ethics of care. The theoretical foci of the book include feminist, existential, ethical, aesthetic, phenomenological, social and political theories. These perspectives are then employed to consider many dimensions of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering, which are of central importance to human existence, but are only rarely discussed in philosophical cannons. Topics include pregnancy and embodiment, breast-feeding, representations - or the lack thereof - of pregnant and birthing women, adoption, and post-partum motherhood."--Publisher's website.